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I agree 100% that "villain wins, death and hellfire ensue. More at 10:00" is a pretty easy way to go about this. I read these books back in the 7th grade, and I had never been exposed to such a bittersweet ending as that, it almost made me cry when I read it. Always nice to see another fan of the books, and I found a very nice looking omnibus collection for the books on amazon I may need to pick up now.

If you like this prompt you should read this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0091956137
Very funny, excellent all round

People above are mentioning similarity to Garth Nix. His Old Kingdom series is among my favorite books ever. The first one is called Sabriel. Definitely worth a read if you liked this.

Have you read Anathem? Because if you haven't, you should. I loved that book and I loved the world you created through the eyes of this young alien boy. In reality, I think this story needs to be a full-length novel. You have so many wonderful insights into this culture that you simply don't get a chance to go over.

I felt as though the end was rushed, and I found myself having to go back and see if I had missed important details. I think I had a bit of a shock, because the pacing changed dramatically near the end and I had a hard time visualizing the action.

Flesh this baby out! Write a novel! Do it!

Some supplementary reading. Great books!

https://www.amazon.com/The-Jewish-Study-Bible-Edition/dp/0199978468

https://www.amazon.com/Wrote-Bible-Richard-Elliott-Friedman/dp/0060630353

http://www.amazon.com/HYPERtheticals-50-Questions-Insane-Conversations/dp/0307587924

it's epic - based off this prompt, you'd love it

That’s so weird, I was just looking at the hardback box set because my best friend asked for it for her birthday, but gosh dang the set costs $56.99!

Read articles written by educated people, anyone can write a blog. Read articles and books about grammar and linguistics. There are a lot of fun little books about forgotten or rare words. This book, for example. Also, you have to make a conscious effort to change the way you speak and write without being self-conscious about it "sounding weird." The only way that our language will improve, or at least not deteriorate, is if we pay attention to how we speak and avoid laziness. "Oh, you know what I meant!" No, I know what you said. We have a language that allows us to be very precise and we should make good use of it.

For those of you interested, a short story in MTG: Distant Planes called "Chef's Surprise" is also the same as this prompt.

http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Gathering-Distant-Kathy-Ice/dp/0061053139

There's an interesting book similar to this concept called remainder by Thomas McCarthy

https://www.amazon.com/Remainder-Tom-McCarthy/dp/0307278352

Sounds like Hogfather. :D

It just so happens you can know the answer to most of that question.
http://www.amazon.com/Escape-From-The-Deep-Courageous/dp/0306815192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376030149&sr=8-1&keywords=escape+from+the+deep

Just read Flower For Algernon.

So there’s actually a book called Sphereland, which is similar. I believe in that book, a sphere gets visited by a hyper sphere or hyper cube or something while he’s interacting with flatland. Reminded me of your prompt. It’s been over a decade since I’ve read it, so I don’t fully remember, but I think you’d dig it.

https://www.amazon.com/Sphereland-Fantasy-Expanding-Universe-English/dp/0064635740

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphereland

That's actually kind of a funny prompt. In part of the summer reading book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas Foster I actually did read, he mentions that the characters surrounding the main protagonist suffer (usually die) to advance the plot by evoking action by the main character.

I'd completely forgotten about this novel until now...

No, no, that's The Berenstain Bears Storybook Bible. This is The Berenstain Bears Holy Bible (New International Readers' Version), neither of which should be mistaken for The Berenstain Bears Storybook Bible for Little Ones.

If you want to read a longer form story about the conquest of hell by the damned there's a story by Chuck Palahniuk (the guy who wrote fight club) called "Damned" that's pretty decent, it's got Hitler and lagoons of aborted foetuses!

This is kind of similar to the plot of this book: Blindness by José Saramago

>A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.